THE MAHONING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Mahoning County has 411.5 square miles of land in Ohio. The mapped landscape region in Mahoning County is Low Lime Drift Plain.
Low rounded hills, glacial moraines, kettles and wetland areas define the Erie Drift Plain. Its terrain is more varied than nearby flatter farming regions and less rugged than the unglaciated plateaus.
Regional context: Erie Drift Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Mahoning County
The atlas lists 39 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Mahoning County, including Youngstown, Beaver, Springfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Mahoning County by land and water
The Census records 13.7 square miles of water within Mahoning County, or 3.2% of its total area. That share is close to Mahoning County’s 3.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mahoning County has 16 times the land area of nearby Canfield township (25.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Columbiana County, Portage County, Stark County, Trumbull County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

